Eddie Obeid faces another court hearing

Former NSW Labor minister Eddie Obeid, recently convicted of misconduct in public office, is due back in court on another criminal charge.

Obeid and his son Moses were charged last year with conspiracy over the issuing of a coal mining exploration licence on Obeid family land at Mount Penny in the Bylong Valley near Mudgee.

The charges can now be revealed, after a NSW Supreme Court jury last month found Eddie Obeid guilty of wilful misconduct in public office in 2007.

He was found to have lobbied a senior public servant about lucrative retail leases at Sydney's Circular Quay, without revealing his family's stake in the outlets.

The one-time Labor powerbroker, 72, once boasted that he had a "one per cent" chance of facing charges despite being branded corrupt by the state's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) following its probe into the leases.

In 2013, ICAC found the Mt Penny coal exploration licence enabled the Obeid family to make $30 million.

Obeid and his son are due to face a five-day committal hearing on the conspiracy charge at the Downing Centre Local Court on August 29.